Frederick Myers came to America with his parents when he was 3 years of age. He was the youngest of five children. His father Anthony, insisted that all of his children learn to read and write English. He told them very little about Germany and told them America was their home. Frederick Myers was a goldsmith by trade. He went to California during the Gold Rush. He made Lucinda, his wife, many beautiful intricate pieces of jewelry which was stolen from her during the Civil War by the Bushwackers in Nevada, Missouri.

My line of Myers is descended down through the Brown Family when Anna Marie Franklin Myers (daughter of Frederick William Myers) married Wesley Thomas Brown.They eventually settled in Baker, Oregon where they lived out their lives.

I do not know any living males whom I can request DNA testing from so I hope someone on this site has a connection to this family line.

"I have long looked for the family of my gggrandfather, FRIEDRICH, without avail. I truly believe he is related to Amschel Meyer Rothschild of Frankfurt Germany and that this man had maybe 20 children with 10 only recorded.

I would like to add him to the Myer (Meyer) project. Here is his grave information:

Per an affidavit filed in the Civil War pension file of his brother, Hiram Myers, Andrew Myers moved with his family from Wilkes Co., NC to Sullivan Co., TN, as a young child, and grew up in Sullivan and Washington Counties in Tennessee. Andrew followed his brother Hiram to Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois in the mid-1860s, and married Emily Holmes in Menard County, Illinois in 1865. They lived in Menard, Montgomery, Cass (1870 U.S. Census) and McLean (1880 U.S. Census) Counties before finally settling in Peoria County in the early 1880s.

Other affidavits in the Civil War pension file state there was another brother, Adam. Nothing is known about Adam, or about the Myers brothers' parents. All were thought to have left Washington County, Tennessee around the time of the war.